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L.A.Noire in "final production phase"?

The Team Bondi site has been dead since 2006 when the trailers for L.A.Noire were first aired, until 2 months ago when this was posted:

"We're looking to expand our Animation Team to cope with the final production phase of L.A. Noire. "

Clearly the game, although claimed vapourware by Take Two at their E3 press conference last week is well on it's way to being finished.

Hit the link to read the full post.
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LA Noire Almost Complete? - playstationlifestyle.net | By: LinuxGuru
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Published: 518 days 7 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3
 
 

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Real gamer 4 life - 518 days 7 hours ago
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So it this game exclusive or what? Is it coming out for both platform or just sony's ps3?
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beast - 518 days 7 hours ago
1.1 - its says
Next Generation ConsoleS... as in plural. So i am pretty sure multi
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Real gamer 4 life - 518 days 7 hours ago
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Anyone know why sony stop funding this project?
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NO_PUDding - 518 days 7 hours ago
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The is reason for confusion becuase Take Two stated it was exclusive, only last October.

And SCEA apparently funded the project.

But then the site says next-gen consoles.

So which is it? I would assume it's PS3 exclsuive, sicne Team Bondi, clearly haven't updated their site since it was created, and more to the point, if the Publisher (althoguh it is Rockstar, under Take Two) Take Two, is fine with it being exclsuive; the people interested in the money, then why it wouldn't be, I don't know.

Safest bet is to wait and see. Not many things are exclsuive these days.
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Xiphos - 518 days 7 hours ago
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I think it's gonna be multi. Take Two has been vocal about the possibility, and Sony dropped funding awhile ago.
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NO_PUDding - 518 days 7 hours ago
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Take Two have been quite the opposite. They have been vocal about it being exclusive, last June.

The last time this agme was mentioned, it was a press release that stated it was still exclusive. And it had been shifted back to fiscal '09.

http://ir.take2games.com/Re...
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Xiphos - 518 days 6 hours ago
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"The financial report also stated that fellow Take-Two title LA Noire is due out in fiscal 2008. The spokesperson suggested that both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 releases are likely, stating, 'LA Noire is being developed for next-generation systems.'"

http://www.gamesindustry.bi...

It's old, but most of the news on this title is.
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NO_PUDding - 518 days 6 hours ago
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The article is in relation to to the report that says it's for the Playstation 3.

The Rockstar spokesperson is obviously quoting from Team Bondi's website, that hadn't been updated since 2004. This holds far less weight than an actual fiscal report. And it holds little credibility, since we still haven't seen the 360 exclsuive DLC, and GTAIV, did not come out in October.

The fact is, Team Bondi, consists solely of members from Sony's First party (ex-Team SOHO employees), and they were then bound in an exclsuive agreement, and ofcourse the project was funded by SCEA (originally, and possibly still). The were the team that created the original 'The Getaway'.
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Dark vader - 518 days 6 hours ago
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Well we do know one thing, rockstart is going to develop a new franchise exclusive to the ps3. Its been confirm already.
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beavis4play - 518 days 6 hours ago
1.9 - bubble for you NOPUDding, it looks like you've done your homework on this
which is more than i can say for many of those people who put stories on this site.
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vegnadragon - 518 days 7 hours ago
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wow, I thought this game was being made by rockstar.
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Le-mo - 518 days 7 hours ago
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L.A. Noire is exclusive to the Playstation 3. SCEA is funding the project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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Real gamer 4 life - 518 days 7 hours ago
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Yea but on their website it say, coming to next generation consoles.
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IzKyD1331 - 518 days 7 hours ago
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SCEA is NOT funding it anymore
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avacadosnorkel - 518 days 7 hours ago
4 - What happened to the R* Old West game?
I want beans, dirty women to rape, and hand rolled cigarettes.
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Le-mo - 518 days 7 hours ago
5 - @Real gamer 4 life
The fact is SCEA is funding the project so it will stay exclusive. People make mistake when typing.
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avacadosnorkel - 518 days 7 hours ago
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2K funds Rockstar...If anything, Microsoft would give money for favors to 2K on behalf of R* therefore you're whole statement is incorrect.

Sorry.
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NO_PUDding - 518 days 7 hours ago
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Lovely example of fanboy logic avocadosnorkel.

Shall we just wait and see rather than spew utter bull?

It's a fact that SCEA were at one point funding this (and may have continued to), but we do not know what bindings this involves.
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PoSTedUP - 518 days 7 hours ago
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sony was supporting this game in some way. it was rumor that they stopped. lets wait and see what happens.
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DJ - 518 days 7 hours ago
5.4 - And they still might be.
Sony helped develop the 360 (and PS3) engine used in DIRT and GRID, so it's a possibility. *shrug
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jcgamer - 518 days 7 hours ago
6 - I can't wait to see more of L.A. Noire
everything about the concept screams day one purchase for me...but we'll see...
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HuntTheWumpus - 518 days 2 hours ago
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Yes, this game looks to be very unique. What else have TeamBondi done? I can't think of anything at the moment. Isn't it former Sony dev's?

Whatever platforms it comes out on I can't wait to see more about it. Maybe a PC version? Probably not. :(
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PoSTedUP - 518 days 7 hours ago
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MAFIA is looking banging from what i saw. can wait for the both of them.
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Dark General - 518 days 7 hours ago
8.1 - I agree
Mafia 2 is looking quite good and i loved the original. This is looking pretty interesting too specially since you're supposed to be playing as a detective solving some type of crimes or something like that.
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sephy 9 2 5 - 518 days 7 hours ago
9 - I'm not sure how
this game has managed to get this far in production and nobody has really talked about it. Weird...
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NO_PUDding - 518 days 7 hours ago
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Exactly what I was thinking!!

Bubbles becuase no one else has mentioned this.
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name - 518 days 6 hours ago
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Anyone ever consider maybe SCEA stopped funding the project because it was already near completion? Just tossing that out there.
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Xi - 518 days 6 hours ago
10.1 - or they stopped funding it.
because it wasn't meeting deadlines?
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mistertwoturbo - 518 days 6 hours ago
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Could this be the August 3rd announcement?
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ash_divine - 518 days 6 hours ago
11.1 - you know what...
that makes total sense. if sorta matches the hints Sev gave in the tags.
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castags - 518 days 6 hours ago
12 - funding......
good lord, who the hell cares!? I wanna see some game play.
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devilhunterx - 518 days 6 hours ago
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PS3 and PC. Watch this space.
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BlueRevolvuR - 518 days 6 hours ago
14 - could be
a typo
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beavis4play - 518 days 6 hours ago
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it's been announced for ps3. if it goes to other consoles- who cares? this game looks really cool. i hope the devs give us more info sometime soon.
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keyblademaster - 518 days 5 hours ago
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it's staying exclusive, one of my sources tells me but, they could be wrong so far they've been 50/50 at being correct, still the ball is in the air on this one
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bishop-br - 517 days 22 hours ago
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LOL... Let me see what my sources say...

Hum... uh... No, nothing coming.

Maybe more one or two scotches!
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AclayPS3 - 518 days 5 hours ago
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It's about time something about this game has been updated.

Currently it's only been announced for the Playstation 3, but on their site it's listed as "Next Generation Consoles", so I'm guessing it's going to probably end up going multiplatform, but for now it's a Playstation 3 exclusive.
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Leathersoup - 518 days 3 hours ago
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I hate all of this exclusive / non-exclusive arguing. I've been waiting for a well made 30's/40's noir style game. With Rockstar behind it, it will have to be amazing.

I do hope it comes out for the Xbox 360, if it's PS3 only, I'll be sad and miss out on it. I can't afford to pick up another console.
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Rusted - 517 days 15 hours ago
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my best bet is a timed exclusive.
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